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Nothing Happens
Nurit Bar-Shai
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Nothing Happens is a telematic networked performance in which online viewers work together to make a series of objects tip over. The performance consists of three acts, which are centered around staged environments – a high shelf, a cluttered tabletop and an empty floor. Each scene contains a central protagonist, respectively: a cardboard box, a clear pint glass full of water and a wooden chair. In all three acts, web-enabled, physical devices controlled by viewer’s clicks make these objects tip over. The three acts are performed sequentially, each within a duration of a few days’ to weeks’ time. These performance are linear and terminal; they end when the object falls.
The website acts as a go between, allowing physically distant observers a chance to participate. In one direction, the site displays live images in realtime of the current act as it unfolds. In the other direction, users are able to click a simple interface in order to manipulate the scene.
The key aim of interactivity in this performance is to create an immediate understandable form of interaction, so that each click of a user is rightfully perceived as progressing the scene further.
Links: http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/nothingHappens/
The website acts as a go between, allowing physically distant observers a chance to participate. In one direction, the site displays live images in realtime of the current act as it unfolds. In the other direction, users are able to click a simple interface in order to manipulate the scene.
The key aim of interactivity in this performance is to create an immediate understandable form of interaction, so that each click of a user is rightfully perceived as progressing the scene further.
Links: http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/nothingHappens/
Hardware and installation: Rich Miller; software: Zach Lieberman, John Schimmel.
Nothing Happens is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Greenwall Foundation.
Additional support from 3rd Ward and ITP/NYU.
Nothing Happens is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Greenwall Foundation.
Additional support from 3rd Ward and ITP/NYU.
Nurit Bar-Shai (US) employs video and new technologies to explore fundamental questions of presentation and representation, to reframe the familiar and turn audiences into foreigners in their own ontological domains. Her work has been exhibited widely in venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, Team Gallery in New York, and international festivals taking place in the US, Europe, and Asia.